North Carolina Museum of art Reopens A Marriage of Art and Nature by Susan Ramsay
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estled in tangles of oak trees and flanked by years of history. The clean, white walls and airy galpavilions and pools, the newly renovated North leries of the West Building embody the democratic Carolina Museum of Art embraces and celebrates the spirit the designers intended. Natural light illumibeauty of nature. The new West Building stands in the nates and connects the rooms allowing for a clearer park’s 16 acres of land—a bounty of space rare for an union between observer and artwork. The collections include a variation of works rangart museum. Director Lawrence Wheeler states, “We ing from European paintings from the could not have asked for more: a building Renaissance to the 1th century, to that is both aesthetically stunning and Egyptian funerary art. Stroll through the environmentally ‘green’, a space to show Rodin Court, dotted with grand sculpour collection to the very best advantage, tures, then pause to take in the Ameriand a place that will serve as a destinacan art of the 1th through 20th centution not only for art lovers but also for ries and international contemporary art. anyone seeking a respite and a place of Other attractions incorporate sculpture beauty and serenity.” Admission is free to and vase painting from ancient Greece the public and the complex is a true treaand Rome as well as African, pre-Cosure for the city of Raleigh. lumbian and Oceanic art. The display of The NC Museum of Art first opened Jewish ceremonial objects is one of two to the public in 156 and today boasts a NCMA Director, Dr. Larry Wheeler permanent displays of Jewish art in the collection that spans more than 5,000
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